A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)

by Ursula K. Le Guin

“You cannot always find the Warder where he is, but sometimes you find him where he is not,”

To light a candle is to cast a shadow . . .”

A mage can control only what is near him, what he can name exactly and wholly.

From that time forth he believed that the wise man is one who never sets himself apart from other living things, whether they have speech or not, and in later years he strove long to learn what can be learned, in silence, from the eyes of animals, the flight of birds, the great slow gestures of trees.

A hero whose heroism consists of killing people is uninteresting to me,

War as a moral metaphor is limited, limiting, and dangerous.